IMAGES THAT LEAD TO LEARNING, GROWING, CREATING

Wondering if it's ok to use an image? Check out this infographic that explains "The Law, Terms and Ethics for Using Copyrighted Images." It helps you answer the harder questions by explaining what exactly Copyright, Fair use, Creative Commons, and Public Domain are and about Attribution. Creative Commons defines "appropriate credit" as (a) the name of the creator and attribution parties, (b) a copyright notice, (c) a license notice, (d) a disclaimer notice, and (e) a link to the material. Creative Common licenses can allow others distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon the work. Bottom line you need to check the license. Many Creative Commons images require attribution. PhotoPin has a good explanation about how to site attribution. Read how here.

Finding Images to Use

UNSPLASH LICENSEAll photos published on Unsplash are licensed under Creative Commons Zero which means you can copy, modify, distribute and use the photos for free, including commercial purposes, without asking permission from or providing attribution to the photographer or Unsplash.

Pexels provides high quality and completely free stock photos licensed under the Creative Commons Zero (CC0) license. All photos are nicely tagged, searchable and also easy to discover through our discover pages.

CC Search allows you to search for creative commons photos across the web. Narrow your search by Pixabay, Google Images and more. Not all results that are generated have Creative Commons licenses but the majority do. Check the license for attributions requirements. CC Search is also great is if you are looking for sound clips.

This site contains quality, high resolution pictures and adds to their database on a daily basis. All photos uploaded to the site are released under Creative Commons - CC0 and do not require attribution. No more hassle trying to figure out whether you can use photos for commercial use and whether you need to provide attribution.

Free high-resolution pictures you can use on your personal and commercial projects. Click on an image to download the high-resolution version. New awesome pictures added weekly! All pictures were photographed by Ryan McGuire and free of copyright restrictions.

Teachers have told us they need a place to access safe images that are available to be used in the classroom and for educational purposes. Plus they want accurate image citations. We’ve heard you and created “Photos For Class” to meet your needs for images!

Age Appropriate Images - All images are appropriate for school setting thanks to Flicker safe Search and our proprietary filters - Read More

Creative Commons - All photos shown are to the best of our (and Flickr's) knowledge Creative Commons licensed for school use

Many Creative Commons images require attribution. PhotoPin has a good explanation about how to site attribution. Read how here. Also if you are in doubt about the use of a photo the visualcommunicationsguy.com has a great graphic explains what to do here.